The RNC (ken Melman) has recently been running somewhat controversial ads in Tennessee with White girls saying "Call me" Harold. Which do not seem to me to be racist in anyway but I have heard them being framed that way (as racist) ...I did not think they were racist..Just in really bad taste...what do you think?
2006-10-25 05:21:41 · 10 answers · asked by LENNON3804 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
lennon380 I thank you for this level headed analysis.however I disagree with you.the attempt to engender racial hatreds is subtle but for those of us who have lived it,this is very real.especially at the end when a beautiful blond woman winks at FORD.With this they are enticing the 10 -15%of the population in the south who hate race mixing.you know what,we've come very far in the south and we will overcome this too.these are the base instincts theRNC appeals to when they are in trouble.this is all!
2006-10-25 05:45:15 · answer #1 · answered by miraclehand2020 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since he's black...I don't know. I haven't seen the ads, myself, though I'm sure I will at some point. I don't know what the point of having girls of any race say, "call me" on a political ad is.
Those Corker ads are garbage, pure garbage. He doesn't have anything to recommend himself, so all he's doing is saying, oh, Ford's a pretty-boy and you can't trust him. Why should Ford be penalized for being handsome? It's not like it's part of his platform or anything. He just happens to be a good-looking guy.
Corker is looking like a damn fool with the ads he's running or allowing to run in support of him. Whatever--I'm not voting for him, so it's fine by me if he looks like a jerk. But I'm sick of hearing them. Corker certainly doesn't represent me--last time I checked, I didn't have hundreds of millions of dollars and I don't trust Corker because I'm suspicious of how he got all that money. And if he were such a great guy, why does he still have so much money? Wouldn't he have given some away, or something?
Corker's ads suck as$ and I'll be glad when elections are over and I don't have to see them anymore.
2006-10-25 12:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally, as a product of an interracial marriage in the South, I fail to see the racism here. Perhaps the ad is targeting racists bigots (PERHAPS), but were they going to vote for Harold Ford anyway? It seems to me that the ad is is equally as void of logic as any other political ad.
2006-10-27 16:32:14 · answer #3 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know that Tennessee was part of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, right? So why do you think Republicans ran that ad? To upset black Tenn. Voters? I don't think so, which makes that ad not only in bad taste but racists as well.
2006-10-25 12:31:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All I have seen of these is the news reports that chop up the ad so much I can't tell for sure anything about them. I don't know about the bad taste, but they are frivilous and have nothing to do with the race. I see no reason for any of it, so it being racially motivated could be a possibility.
2006-10-25 12:33:05 · answer #5 · answered by John J 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The GOP plays the "race card" when they are in trouble, especially in the South. Remember how Bush and Rove hinted about an out-of-wedlock racially mixed baby involving Senator McCain and a woman during the 2000 South Carolina Republican Primary?
2006-10-25 12:32:02 · answer #6 · answered by Feathery 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I thought it was a great and truthful ad.
Much nicer than most Democrat ads.
Ford is just another phony and hypocrite.
2006-10-25 12:24:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Need more info!
2006-10-25 12:24:21 · answer #8 · answered by Brianne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just think that Bob Corker is Slime!!!
2006-10-25 12:23:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
that is racist
2006-10-25 12:23:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋